Sculpture / -400 to -300
Maenad dancing, holding sword and split animal
Relief
Conceived 400 B.C., approximately
Greece
Terracotta group of two women dancing, one playing a tympanon drum
Sculpture, terracotta pottery statuette
20 cm height
400 B.C., approximately
Ancient Greece, Athens
Satyr dancing
Praxitelis (attributed)
Statue in bronze
Conceive in 400. B.C., approximately
Italy
Found accidentally in 1998 off the coast of Sicily. Exhibited at the Italian parliament in Rome.
Votive plaque
Relief in marble
400 B.C., approximately
Greece
Stater coin of Abdera showing young Kalathiskos dancer
Relief in silver coin (2.8 cm diam)
400 B.C., approximately
Abdera, Greece.
Detail: The young female dancer in short chiton pirouettes on the tips of her toes. This is a typical Laconian (i.e. from Sparta) dance movement (Karyatizein) performed by the Karyatid virgins in honour of Artemis at Karyes in Laconia.
Athens, Greece.
Flutist and dancing woman; Dionysus, Ariadne, Hercules, Eros
Relief in silver (18.2 cm height)
400 B.C., approximately
Thrace, Bulgaria, Greece.
Bare-breasted dancing maenad
Relief in marble.
Conceive in 400 B.C., approximately
Athens, Greece.
Dancing woman
Relief in gold ring (2 x 1.6 cm)
390 B.C., approximately
Greece
Semi-nude Nymph whirls in a dance movement.
Marble arch of Galerius
Sculpture, relief
385 BC approx.
Ancient, Greece, Macedonia
Terracotta figure of a woman dancing
Sculpture, statuette, terracotta pottery
25 cm x 11.5 cm width
380 B.C., approximately
Made in Boeotia, said to be found in Eretria.
Ancient Greece, Boeotia
Maenad dancing
Relief in marble (143 cm height)
375 B.C., approximately
Roman copy of a Greek original of the late 5th century B.C.
Greece, Rome.
Titeux dancer
Statuette in marble
350 B.C., approximately
A Tanagra greek statuette.
Figurine of a dancing girl, face covered by her Himation garment
Sculpture in clay and terracotta (25 cm height)
350 B.C., approximately
Found at Tanagra, the product of a Boeotian workshop
Veiled Tanagra dancer
Sculpture in terracotta and clay
350 B.C., approximately
Attic or Beotian art. Greece
Satyr dancing
Statuette in bronze
350 B.C., approximately
Greece
Figurine of a girl with tambourine, possibly dancing.
Statuette in terracotta and clay (25 cm height)
350 B.C., approximately
Found at Tanagra, the product of a Boeotian workshop. Greece, Boeotia.
Figurine of a dancing girl lifting her Himation garment above her head
Sculpture in clay and terracotta (20.5 x 4.6 x 6.4 cm)
350 B.C., approximately
Found in Phthiotida. Greece.
Figurine of a dancing girl leaning her covered head backwards
Statuette in terracotta and clay (19.5 cm height)
350 B.C., approximately
Product of a Boeotian workshop. The dancer wears a Himation garment
Grave stele of a female dancer holding clappers and a boy
Relief in pentelic white marble
350 B.C., approximately (77 x 12 cm)
The boy is probably the son of the dead dancer, a rare example of the occuation of the deceased.
Greece
Statuette of a dancing young woman
Sculpture, terracotta statuette
17.5 x 8.8; base 5.5 x 4 cm
350 B.C., approximately
Necropolis of Pantikapaion, 1875. Child’s grave no 4. with text.
Ancient Greece
Gold plaques in the form of female dancers, two with kalathos
Relief in gold (3.6, 4.5 & 5 cm)
350 B.C., approximately
From the stone tomb no. 1 in the kurgan Bolshaya Bliznitsa on the Tanam Peninsula, Ivi, Black Sea.
Maenad
Skopas
Sculpture
350 B.C., approximately
Greece.
Gold plaque in the form of female dancer
Sculpture, relief, gold
4.8 cm height
350 B.C., approximately
Ancient Greece
Female dancer with Krotala
Statuette in terracotta (17.4 cm height)
350 B.C., approximately
Attic figurine bearing traces of color.
Greece.
Dancer
relief
350 B.C., approx.
Greece
Dancer
Callimachus
Relief
350 B.C. approximately
Greece
Dancer
Statuette in clay
350 B.C. approximately
Found in the Northern Necropolis of Samothrace, Greece.
Boy leading girls to dance
Relief on marble
350 B.C., approximately
Votive offering
Greece
Seated flutist and three women dancing
Relief on marble
350 B.C. approximately
Votive offering
Greece
Satyr dancing
Sculpture, bronze
350 B.C., approximately
Greece
Exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts in London in 2012
Young man leading three young women to dance
Relief on marble
350 B.C., approximately
Votive offering
Greece
Terracotta statuette of a dancing girl. Terracotta, Greek, Corinthian
Sculpture, statuette, terracotta
12.5 cm height
350 B.C., approximately
Ancient Greece
Dancing girls
Relief in marble from Thasos (32.4 cm height)
340 B.C., approximately
Detail of entablature of Propylon to Temenos. Lent by the Louvre Museum in Paris. Greece, Samothrace.
Dancing girls. Section of a frieze
Relief in marble from Thasos (32.4 cm height)
340 B.C., approximately
Part of the the frieze ran around the entire building of the Propylon to Temenos. This part was used as a support of the altar table in the chapel of Saint Nicholas at Ano Meria, Samothrace
Silver tray with Dionysos, Pan, Maenads and satyrs
Relief on silver tray (69 cm diameter)
340 B.C., approximately
Made in Alexandria, found 1942 at Mildenhall, Suffolk, UK.
Pan playing his flute, couple following him and man dancing.
Relief, ivory.
340 B.C., approximately
Greece, Macedonia.
Gold revellers dance and sing. Ornaments on Meda’s couch
Sculpture, relief, gold
336 B.C., approximately
Ancient, Greece, Macedonia
The acanthus column with the three maidens holding the symbols of Apollo over their heads
Sculpture, marble
328 BC approx.
Greece, Olympia
Pyrrhic dancers holding shields
Relief in marble
325 B.C., approximately
Relief on the base of the choregic monument of Atarvos
Greece, Athens, Antiquity
Flutist marching before three dancing women
Relief on marble
320 B.C., approximately
Votive offering
Greece.
Gold band diadem, probably representing a Dionysiac thiasos (performing group for the god Dionysos)
Relief hammered gold strip (29 cm length x 1.8 cm width)
315 B.C., approximately
Found in a grave at Amphipolis. The diadem bears holes for tying it on the head with a ribbon. 23 figures, among them Maenads and girls dancers with Kalathiskos on their heads
Greece.
Young man dancing
Statuette in bronze (20 cm height)
315 B.C., approximately
Beginnings of the hellenistic period. The body reflects plainly classicism, while the pose of abandon is new
Greece
Hermes and three nymphs
Relief
310 B.C., approximately
Votive relief
Greece
Dancing dwarf, Ptolemaic period, marble
Sculpture, statuette, marble
10 height x 4.9 cm width
300 B.C., approximately
Ancient Greece